The client's supplier onboarding process was entirely manual, relying on PDF forms emailed to new vendors. This created several critical issues:
- Lengthy onboarding cycles — suppliers would receive PDF forms, fill them incorrectly, and send them back, triggering multiple rounds of back-and-forth over email
- Zero visibility — once a form was sent out, the procurement team had no way of knowing whether the supplier had received it, started filling it, or abandoned it entirely
- Data quality issues — manual data entry from PDFs into Oracle led to errors, duplicate records, and an unreliable supplier master
- Inflexible Oracle forms — the standard Oracle Fusion supplier registration forms were rigid and not user-friendly for external suppliers, leading to poor completion rates